Not Me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

As for my idyllic life, I have not been woken up too early (6:15 a.m.) several days this past week by my older children running into our bedroom and yelling, "Momma, there's dirt in the road again!" The people who own the land across the road from us would never dream of irritating their new neighbors before they even live here by dumping several loads of dirt throughout the day and then spreading it around their land with a bulldozer that sounds as if it is stuck in the mud every 2 inches it travels. My days have not been filled with "clank, clang, crash" and "vroom, errk, vroom, errk." Ugh! And, I have not seen the silver lining of the rain clouds that have prohibited the dirt dumping the past few days!

I absolutely did not enjoy the blissful extra hour of sleep as part of my Mother's Day gift! I certainly did not take over my husband's side of the bed while he fed our older daughters (French toast) and bathed them! Nor did I devour a delicious omelet, strawberry-jellied toast, fresh strawberries, and orange juice! I obviously do not have the best husband in the world! (I'm thinking more like the best in the universe!) And, although I have banned sugar in our household (how else will I ever lose this post-partum body?), I was not touched when he picked up my favorite sugar cookies as well as the hamburgers when we stopped at the grocery store after church before heading out to camp for the first time this summer year.

Speaking of mothers...

Grace certainly has not learned the art of multitasking from my example! (She's missing a glass of water and a computer...)


And, being the supermomma that I am, I would never dream of posting another Not Me! Monday before blogging about lovely Lydia's birth... and I would never spotlight a pic of my 1 month old (where did the past 4 weeks go?!?!) going on the potty! I certainly would never support my husband's decision to have her poop on the potty instead of in her diaper, especially considering we use cloth diapers and this meant one less diaper to wash! And, I would not take a picture of Lydia and Daddy sitting on the potty! (but I really won't post the pic of what she did deposit in the commode! I definitely won't hide it in her scrapbook! Ha!)

I really do not expect this to become a habit, unless she continues to poop only on Saturdays as she has the past two weeks. Taking my 1 month old to the potty truly is not going to happen when I'm home with our 2 year old and 3.5 year old by myself. (And, I cropped this pic just for you, Deb! I certainly would not put a pic of Ben's "Yankees Suck" t-shirt on my blog! *wink)

I absolutely would be remiss and feed into the middle child syndrome by excluding her from this post, so please enjoy a pic of my favorite diva as this week's good bye!